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Sugar Smack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-11-06 03:46 PM
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When did "disrespect" become a verb?
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liberalpragmatist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-11-06 03:53 PM
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1. Well, "respect" can be a verb
Anyway, I think the prefix "dis-" is only meant to be applied to verbs. Could be wrong though, I'm not etymologist. :)
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Sugar Smack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-11-06 03:58 PM
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2. *wince* I think you're right.
As the daughter of a linguistics professor, I DON'T know.

I know a few Latin roots, I know a few pronunciations (it's PAT-i-na, not pa-TI-na).

And I don't know shit about bugs, either, altough I'm always trying to learn. ;-)
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In_The_Wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-11-06 04:13 PM
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3. I give up ~ When?
Lemme guess ~ probably about the same time this became true about g w shrub ...
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Sugar Smack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-11-06 04:14 PM
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4. LOL! I'm not Johnny Carson!
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-11-06 04:28 PM
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5. 1614
At least the on-line etymological disctionary suggests that that is the years of its first surviving written use.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=disrespect&searchmode=none
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